500 Server error's

[WWTBAM]

I have been getting periods of several minutes (up to 20) on the Forums and the Wiki where I get 500 Server error consistently, I presume anything else hosted on the forums server will do the same. I can not reliably load any page on the Forums or the Wiki during these seemingly random periods that happen around 3:00 PM AEST.

[Nawdic]

Ive had these this morning as well, isn't this a host issue?

[Purno]

I had problems loading the forums too, this morning, although no error was given, after 2 minutes of loading I kinda gave up. It does happen more often, usually in mornings, AFAIR.

[WWTBAM]

For me it's a pain when trying to clean spam Hopefully Owen will see this even though he's on holiday.

[Nawdic]

Should really be a second in command when the almighty is on holiday......

[WWTBAM]

Should really be a second in command when the almighty is on holiday......

Patchman was. I think the almighty will be visiting tonight (Tuesday) so hopefully he can have a quick look.

[WWTBAM]

Owen has informed me that he has fixed the issue.

[orudge]

The FastCGI backend was getting overloaded now and then I think, so I've increased the number of PHP processes which will hopefully have fixed this.

[Hyronymus]

I still find the forum slow-loading comparing to my other daily visit sites.

[planetmaker]

Indeed it feels that the responsiveness of forums currently is (still) very slow compared to "normal". The response time seems to be several seconds as opposed to usually a fraction of a second.

But it might be related to the server delivering the ads... not sure.

[WWTBAM]

The speed went up when Owen first applied the fix, but has gone down as of the last couple or so hours. The slowness can't be the adds, because moderator only pages which don't have adds are also slow for me.

[Redirect Left]

I'm getting delays of up to 8 seconds when loading pages currently. Although other sites I have with Zernebok are working fine, so my guess is its limited to just this site (or he hosts this site independant of the rest of Zernebok?)

[orudge]

The forums are on their own server.

They do seem a little slower though, seems to be MySQL-related. I'm looking into it. Sorry for the problems.

[YukonRob]

Still very slow for me. If it helps, the 'database backup placeholder' was in place for at least 4 hours last night (7:00pm PST -> 11:00 PST) when I stopped trying.

[orudge]

Yes, that was due to an error after I'd made some changes yesterday meaning the placeholder didn't get deleted (although the backup had completed hours before). Sorry about that.

[Voyager One]

And I was just about to ask someone if it was just my computer that went slow(ish)... Funny enough, today is the first day this lag happened to me...

Sorry for the problems.

Sorry about that.

So... after how many years of keeping this marvelous forum... Why do you still feel the need to apologize for glitches from time to time?

[Nawdic]

Its just happened for me again, just been out for 2 minutes.

[Redirect Left]

Its just happened for me again, just been out for 2 minutes.

yeap, I just had one too, at about 18:47 BST. Only lasted < 15 seconds, it was gone i refreshed.

[orudge]

I've made some more changes to the database server. If this still doesn't help, I'll see what else can be done.

[orudge]

I've made some more significant changes. The search index is being rebuilt, this may take some hours to complete. Hopefully it will help matters though.